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This book was written to remove the cloud of mystique that has always surrounded the dahlia. The Dahlia Primer introduces the dahlia its history, its parts, and its forms/types, and varieties, to those gardeners who like to experience the old and the new in horticulture. With its 15 plus different forms/types, six sizes of blooms ranging from two inches to twelve plus. There are thousands of ways this beautiful flower will give the gardener mu...

First published by Shogakukan Inc. in Japan as "Banana Fish, " c1987.

The history of the 5th Royal Irish Lancers during the Great War and through to their disbandment and eventual amalgamation with 16th (The Queens) Lancers in 1922. Includes never before published photographs and Includes a list of Officers and other ranks killed in action as well as medal recipients.

This report focuses on the use of different public (and pseudo-public) spaces in urban areas. The study examines how different people use public spaces and analyzes how social interactions vary by age, gender, or place. The contents include: an executive summary, background, aims and methods, introducing the study location, interactions in places, managing and regenerating public spaces, and a discussion. (REPORT)

Quine was one of the foremost philosophers of the Twentieth century. In this outstanding overview of Quine's philosophy, Peter Hylton shows why Quine is so important and how his philosophical naturalism has been so influential within analytic philosophy.Beginning with an overview of Quine's philosophical background in logic and mathematics and the role of Rudolf Carnap's influence on Quine's thought, he goes on to discuss Quine's famous analyt...

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units). *Content is well regarded *Popular with th...

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This slim text is a helpful guide to the basic mathematical concepts you will need to understand throughout your nursing career. Taking examples from life first, it will give you confidence in your existing skills and then build on them by applying them to clinical practice. The authors provide a brief overview of SI units and calculations so that you can identify which skills need reinforcement.

Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the "middle passage, " but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans traveling in the opposite direction. In Middle Passages, award-winning historian James T. Campbell vividly recounts more than two centuries of African Amer...

Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre's appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of--and perhaps feel better about--imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonia...

For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in (this book) respond to this condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the...

>Auf dem Jakobsweg< ist Paulo Coelhos sehr persönliches Tagebuch seiner Pilgerreise nach Santiago de Compostela 1986 - ein Reise- und Erfahrungsbericht, in dem bereits die großen Themen seiner Romane - vom >Alchimisten< bis zu Der >Dämon und Fräulein Prym< - angelegt sind: die Liebe, der ewige Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse und die Frage, ob wir unser Leben in die Hand nehmen und die Wende wagen. Ein Buch über Veränderungen, das auch den Leser am...

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The talents of four stellar authors are brought together in one passionate anthology that celebrates homecomings and the joy of love. Janet Dailey is a New York Times bestselling author of nearly 100 novels with an estimated 180 million copies in print worldwide, making her the bestselling living author in the world! Fern Michaels is The New York Times bestselling author of Dear Emily, which has more than 600, 000 copies in print, and the Texa...

The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study analyses these tales.

Die Geschichte einer unglücklichen jungen Frau, die sterben will und erst angesichts des Todes entdeckt, wie schön das Leben sein kann, wenn man darum kämpft und etwas riskiert. Ein wunderbares Buch über die Prise >Verrücktheit<, die es braucht, um den eigenen Lebenstraum Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen, und eine große Liebeserklärung an das Glück in jedem von uns.

Paulo Coelho erzählt in einfacher, moderner Sprache die Geschichte des Propheten Elia, die wir alle kennen, >so wie wir sie nicht kennen<: Sein neuer Roman >Der Fünfte Berg< versetzt uns zurück ins Jahr 870 v. Chr., als Gott Elia befahl, Israel zu verlassen und ins Exil zu gehen. Ausgehend von einer kurzen Bibelstelle erzählt Paulo Coelho die Geschichte des jungen Rebellen und Propheten wider Willen.

Paulo Coelho spricht auch über die Frauen und deren Einfluß auf sein Leben, über Drogen und sein Selbstverständnis als Schriftsteller. In seiner direkten, schmucklosen Sprache zeichnet Coelho hier ein Leben, das sich in vielen Abwegen und Abkürzungen verlief, ehe es seine eigene Reiseroute fand - jene zu sich selbst: einem in seiner Gelassenheit Mut machenden, aber auch viele irritierenden Menschen voller Gegensätze und Widersprüche, einem "Ma...

From a bestselling humorist and business guru comes an indispensable guide for the contemporary working person who is ambitious, greedy and lazy. Bing navigates the reader through a tasteful pile of jobs that pay well and demand very little knowledge or effort.